Tasman, Tasmania

Languages spoken in Tasman

Mandarin is the most common language after English in Tasman, though only 50 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. Tasman's share is less than half the share for Tasmania.

Residents
2,573
Speak another language
50
Languages at home
12
Change since 2016
+212.5%

What's spoken in Tasman apart from English?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Mandarin, Nepali and French.

Mandarin

8 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Nepali

6 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

French

6 speakers

About 0.2 per cent of all residents.

How does Tasman compare with Hobart?

The share for Hobart is more than twice as high as Tasman's. Tasman is 24th of 29 across Tasmania.

Tasman
1.9%
Hobart
19.3%
Tasmania
7.8%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Find Tasman on the diversity index.

Do Tasman's suburbs differ much?

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

1.9% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 223 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 10.6%; among respondents alone it's 2.1%.

Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.

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